Brief Life History of Minerva
When Minerva Cheshire was born about 1835, her father, Samuel Cheshire, was 46 and her mother, Delila Poston, was 31. She died in United States.
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name for someone from the county of Cheshire in northwestern England, the name of which is early recorded as Cestrescire, from the name of the county seat, Chester , + Old English scīr ‘district, division’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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